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The First Day, Fri, Oct 1, 2010

The sun rises on our first Voxless morning, as we row our little life boat away from the wreck. How’s everyone holding up? Did you post your final thoughts? Your last farewell? Did Kzinti go down with the ship?

Rowing away from the wreck

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It was weird going there and seeing the BUH BYE note, and I admit I felt a little like I had no net under me, because I didn’t check my blog very carefully once exported, and didn’t go through my PMs to see if there was any vital info I needed, but once the band-aid was off (nice mix of metaphors, eh?) I’m just glad it’s all over with and I don’t have to think about it anymore. I am a little sad about my collections though. Oh well.

Yeah, there are definitely some things I didn’t manage to salvage. I did my best, but it was like … well, like I said over on my post today, it was like the end of a relationship. At a certain point I just wanted to be done and move on. And so we did. Come on, let’s go make out with WordPress. 😉

Well, I posted a screen shot of the corpse on my blog this morning, if you really wanna know. I figure, even if you deleted it, they’ll still have its remains on their servers, but that’ll be dumped soon enough.

I was actually logged in and running through everything that I hadn’t already deleted. Went to delete another post and got an error message. I had a feeling it was over. Lo and behold, it was. The door was suddenly slammed shut and I had to retreat out of the cold and into my new home

I was in the break room, munching on some leftover pizza crusts from the party the night before. As I lie there, dazed and belching in the first glint of sunlight from the dawn of a new day, it occurred to me that now, with VOX gone, I’ll have to find another server cabinet to inhabit. I feel like Lazlo in that movie Real Genius. It all sounded good, but like Geraldo Rivera and the vault, it was just a big load of hooie, a fat zero.

I don’t get the widespread mourning over Vox. It’d been drifting belly-up a good long while, the handwriting of its closure was on the wall and the site had become a morgue.

Was its shuttering notice short? Sure, but what is to be expected of a company that had long shown apathy toward Vox. Frankly, I’m glad they gave us any notice at all and the time to pull out before they pulled the plug.

Perhaps they feared mobs with torches, and so decided it was safer to give fair notice. I’m glad they pulled the plug when they did. Given more time to twiddle, we might have twiddled. And I don’t believe people are mourning Vox. They’re expressing their fears of losing friends. I sympathize with the anxiety, but feel we’ve averted it.

Frankly, there could have been other hard things going on in other bloggers’ lives (like work, death, school starting, etc) and adding the shutting down of Vox to the pile was just bad timing. If things are already hectic in real life and then you have to worry about losing pictures and posts for three to four years, there is bound to be stress.

Now that the dust is settling, everyone can get into the swing of things

Yeah. I was done feeling bad a few days ago. I’m not super sentimental….I must say I’m not very good at keeping up with friends unless I see them at work, or like I did with you guys on Vox.
But I am feeling a bit more settled here and all my buds are here, so, tra la lee….let’s move on!

I think it was the sense of community we feared most of losing. Looking back on the transition, we spent most of the days available making sure we were all moved to somewhere safe and that we could find each other. What a comforting thought that is, at least for me.

I never went back through my Vox stuff after I exported. Heck, I still haven’t even set up my WordPress as much as everyone else has.

If I can still find all my friends, that’s all the safety net I need. 🙂

Amy, I love that we all started making sure we could find each other the second we heard Vox was closing. I really didn’t even trust them to keep it open as long as they said they would and I was afraid of not being able to contact someone if they pulled the plug early.
So at least they stuck to the schedule they posted and we all made it out together! 🙂

I’m sure I lost a few pictures, because I didn’t want to export to Flickr (I imported from my Flickr, I don’t need duplicate photos). I will definitely miss Vox, but it seems like the community has done a pretty good job of moving over to wherever else (WordPress, etc.).

I did a post about it yesterday literally seconds after it was turned off and just answered this as another. The truth is, I will miss Vox, but I am glad I have managed to stay in touch with some of my fave people and that I can find others through this blog. Cheers M’Dear.

My reply on my blog to this was:

I did feel a little weird this morning when I first thought about blogging. Vox, with all it’s little snaggles that made you dislike it, made up for it with the community it provided. The QOTD, the [This is good] pages, the neighbourhood tag all sought to bring together the bloggers that used it. I will miss the way I could put my favourite things together as a collection so like minded people who where lurking about could see that we could be pals.

I read about that, all right, from one of my tech feeds or something like that. It’s called Microsoft Live Spaces, I believe, but might as well be “Microsoft Live Blogs” as far as we’re concerned, i.e., good enough name for me and I understood what it meant.

I think I’ll find that link again and put it up to TechsWrite for our reference.

I said my goodbyes to Vox on my most recent post and expect other ventures to go the same way. It’s a shakeout period where only the biggest and strongest survive. It’s a shame, because the little guys are the ones doing the innovating.